The Vitals

My name is Kristin. I live with my husband (A.), three young sons (Cubby, Charlie, and Jack), one infant daughter (Poppy), and old collie dog (Mia) less than a mile from the Canadian border in the far northern woods of upstate New York. Once upon a time I was going country. Now I'm gone.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

I'm Not Packing Away the Winter Coats Yet. Or Maybe Ever.

Really now, Mama N. What in the hell were you playing at today?

Oh, Mama. You so very, very crazy.

It was 80 degrees on March 22, and then today--which was, to refresh your memory in case it's as shoddy as mine is these days, April 23--we got two inches of snow. Which stuck. And actually continued intermittently all day.

That big low bush you see in the corner of the shed in that photo? That's a lilac. It was all set to burst into bloom any second. And then it got crushed under the weight of the snow. The sad and paltry collection of wood you see in the foreground is all that remains of the woodpile, which you best believe is being depleted at this very moment.

The temperature didn't actually get too terribly cold--I think it got to just at or right below freezing-- so I don't think there will be any lasting damage to any of the plants in the garden at the moment. But I'm hereby putting that Mama N. on notice. She can't be trusted. Obviously.

8 comments:

coz i live in north central vermont, which usually shares weather temporally proximal with upstate ny, unless by "city girl" you mean you are not from *a* city but *the* city, in which case everything out of reach of public transit in manhattan is considered upstate so you could be in freakin' BUFFALO, which is so far out that it might as well be ohio but not very "up".

when i think upstate, i think ogdenburg, which has weather kinda like mine.

The weather records that have been recorded by weather services are very interesting reading. You will see there has always been odd weather. It is just more reported and we are old enough to pay attention to it now. Beth